A small blue brick with a strange marking on it was found, “NØKÍÁ”. When a button was pressed a screen lit up with a young blond female and pink hyroglyphics “HANNAH MONTANA LINUX FOR NOKIA 2026”. On it, an instance of Minecraft with a library unlocked keys to the past as archeologists roamed a pixelated landscape as an avatar named Rahul.

Earlier today I read an article that said that Elon Musk opposes the book burnings AI practice. I was surprised.

Good to see order has returned to the world.

If they did, then there wouldn’t be a legal way for grown adults to look at children’s genitals. Republicans would NEVER allow that.

I hope you’re right!

I’m fairly new to Lemmy. So far, I love the moderation approach of much of Lemmy, “don’t be an assholr and especially dont be a Nazi”.

I think people that come here are attracted to that, they’re also distrustful of social media. It’s a breath of fresh air to come here and be like, “phew, no Nazis” but then you get excited whem you find places like Hexbear, and you’re like, “ooooo openly leftist” and if you’re already distrustful of social media you might believe you’re brainwashed by capitalism and be willing to give the idea of authoritism communism a try because you’ve been lied to about SOME of the left.

Tankie instances make you question reality. Unfortunately, normal instances don’t seem to correct tankies.

Idk, I think of Watership Down a lot. Going from a shitty post capitalistic briar to a Utopia seeming authoritive briar the bunnies kinda find it OK. Until they don’t. Eventually, spoiler alert

Idk, I should reread that book. But I think its applicable here

To make us enter a digital dark ages that is way more than just a digital one!

He’ll probably get a couple bucks per day he was in jail.

What’s Ecosia and noai.ddg?

Not justifying it, but your experience sounds like the experience of a “bad neighborhood” not a nationwide phenomenon.

I personally am OK with the politician that has seemingly done the most good in modern American history playing politics.

Mourning the loss of a soldier, or any of a politician’s constituents, is quite frankly good politics, and basic humanity.

Additionally, there is no indication that the soldier signed up to participate in Trump’s war on Iran. An argument could be made that joining the military is morally wrong, but that argument generally fails to hold the pedophile elite who started the war accountable

Did she also get down and dirty in a theater full of children watching Beetlejuice or was that the other one?

The article talks a lot about how the modern movement isn’t an outright rejection of tech. Rather, it’s a rejection of Big Tech. Which is a really nuanced approach.

The fediverse is equally a rejection of Big Tech, but not a rejection of tech.

The Fediverse, as far as I’ve seen does not have any localized communities, and whatever it does have, its not like reddit where every town over 50,000 people has a sub reddit that gets posted to at least monthly.

The article talks about the Luddite club in NYC, and it mentions one of the goals of the movement as creating a channel for people to be able to find in-person events, without needing to go on [Big Tech owned] social media. In NYC, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, it absolutely makes sense that traditional marketing materials will go further than trying to get people to join non-Big Tech social media, and then also want them to show up in person.

The author highlights the good of early social media, as well. One of the examples they specifically cited was that it connected queer kids living in rural, conservative areas to other queer kids living in similarly dangerous areas. It allowed movements to happen. It is quite apparent that the Luddite Club of NYC is not serving this group of people (nor am I arguing that they should be). They are primarily focused on improving commonality within their community (which is NYC).

After making my initial comment, I did find the Luddite club website, and found that branches exist outside of NYC, but they are primarily found on college campuses. Which makes sense - college campuses are micro-cities with high levels of walk ability and public transit access, and they’re communities that most exemplify the spirit of the Luddite club of NYC. They are full of social clubs that have weekly newsletters (via email), they have lots of networking events, in-person connections, and flyers are everywhere on a college campus. The reason I no longer do medical studies isn’t because I wanted to stop doing them, its because since college, I have not encountered a flyer with the tabs that you pull off to get a phone number.

A more difficult place to start a Luddite club is in a shithole small town in bumblefuck USA. Why? Well, first things are more spread out, there aren’t as many 3rd spaces, and then there’s the small town everyone knows everyone bullshit rumor mills. Townies don’t like different or new groups of weird groups or whatever. I believe it’d cause a stir on a Shithole Midwest Town People in the Know Facebook page if 20 people showed up to a park wearing gnome hats. And it might grow in popularity. But very quickly it would devolve into some Christian cult lady shouting about how gnome hats are actually a sign of the Antichrist, and they’d start showing up to city council looking to ban it. If you lived in that town, every time you went on social media, you’d hear about the devil worshipping gnome hatters. Eventually, the Luddite club would get the reputation of being a group that antagonizes the fragile Christian community, and they’d start to lose support from the centrists that truly don’t care about gnome hats, but they’re just sick of the complaining. The centrists, being the cancer they are on society would see the easy solution as wanting the Luddite club to not exist, not because they think its morally wrong, but because they want to be able to enjoy their town without having a holier than thou Christian fucker bitch about gnome hats.

There are of course the places in between God’s country and NYC. But there are still challenges. In smaller cities and suburbs, the lack of walkability leads to less effective means of communication. And a whole slew of other issues that anyone with have a brain can come up with on their own for why starting a local Luddite chapter would be more difficult than doing so in NYC. Of course, there might be some points where its easier to start a Luddite Club in smaller towns/cities too. I’d be surprised if it was easier to create a Luddite club in a smaller town or city than NYC though.

The Luddite movement would do more for more people with an online presence. A queer kid being able to find Luddism online, is a good thing. And you can reject Big Tech online. That’s why we’re here.

From an organizational standpoint, its also easier to locally organize when you have feedback from communities trying similar things. That’s why trade shows exist - get people in the same industry in the same room to talk and your industry will improve. Using social media to talk about how you organized in a Luddite manner can improve the Luddite cause. From reading the article, I gather that it would be possible to find the Luddite club organizers online, just maybe not on Facebook or Reddit. I don’t see their mission as saying people/businesses shouldn’t use the internet. I see their mission as people/businesses should have the autonomy to be able to not use Big Tech. Further, I wouldn’t be surprised if they’d be supportive of a coffee shop that exclusively advertises their events on their own website. I think their biggest complaint for that would be that individuals would be tied to a Big Tech device to even access the website in the first place.

The Fediverse is, in my opinion, part of the Luddite movement, even if the connection isn’t explicit.

But, I can see why you’d be confused, and make the comment you did, if you didn’t read the article…

??? Care to explain?

Oh dip. I’m sold on Luddism. Is there a Luddite community on the fediverse or to I need to start one locally?

Congrats on therapy! I have a new baby daughter too and I’m on a schedule every 2 or 3 weeks with my therapist. She keeps me sane and I hope yours does too.

Are you missing your hobbies and free time more or socialization?

Fellow American here. Do you strongly dislike Trump enough to stop funding his funders?

It’s a good sign you’re on the fediverse. But where are you shopping? Walmart? Amazon?

Unfortunately, it is nearly unavoidable to boycott Trump’s funders entirely. But there alsovneeds to be a level of accountability for how we got here.

We got here because we continued to support companies that dismantled our Democracy (Citizen’s United). Those companies got the power because we chased the shiny things. We went for the lower price, ignoring the local businesses that charged a bit more but supported the local economy.

We sat back while Democrats earned a reputation of not standing for anyone or anything (except Israel). Maybe we voted for the lesser of 2 evils, but we never demanded better.

We’re here, in our 2nd Trump presidency, with maybe the start of an answer in the DSA. But let’s be real, civilized countries consider DSA policies as centrist. The DSA is our far left with any power, and it has shockingly little power considering how bad our politicians have been for years. I’m glad that Bernie ran in 2016, I’m glad that the movement built, and I’m glad that now we’re finally starting to see DSAs make a name for themselves and get elected into real positions, but let’s be real: if we were fucking sorry about Trump then the DSA would have had the power it currently has in 2018.

Yea, straight cis guy here. I once got kissed by a dude after I actively flirted with him for like 3 hours at a party once. Honestly, 10/10 best kiss of my life, objectively, but that’s how I learned I was definitely straight. Sexuality very much isn’t a choice.

Yea, honestly this pencil (and eventually a metal version of this) was like the BIFL of all my school supplies.

https://www.target.com/p/paper-mate-profile-1pk-2-mechanical-pencil-with-eraser-38-refill-0-7mm-black/-/A-83529292

I’d get one, maybe a 2 pack, at most once a year. College, I had a metal version that lasted me all 4 years.

Give a kid one nice pencil or 2 pencils, and they won’t lose it. Give em an abundance and they’ll most definitely lose em.

Some Honda lines are made in Canada. Shares production with US and Mexico though.

I mean, yea, obviously. Voting red is voting for sending money to fund Israel so they can in turn corrupt our politicians, commit genocide, and get free healthcare. Voting red is voting for an economic recession, higher gas prices, worse schools, and worst of all, voting red is voting for giving handouts to lazy fucks.

I’m not saying voting blue is perfect, it definitely isn’t. But it’s better than the alternative.

I was an idiot that absent mindedly bought and ate a bigmac yesterday.

Chat, how cooked am I?